A Book, Untitled

Written as a literary experiment while its author was simultaneously translating the poems of Armenian writer Shushanik Kurghinian into English. What is historical, what is imagined? A poetic reflection on authorship, *A Book, Untitled *represents a new and bold approach to autofiction.

About the author

Shushan Avagyan is the translator of 'Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot, On the Theory of Prose by Viktor Shklovsky' (Dalkey Archive), 'Art and Production by Boris Arvatov' (Pluto), and 'I Want to Live: Poems of Shushanik Kurghinian' (AIWA). Her articles and translations have appeared in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, CONTEXT, Asymptote, Contemporary Women's Writing, Music & Literature, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches at the American University of Armenia.

Summary

Written as a literary experiment while its author was simultaneously translating the poems of Armenian writer Shushanik Kurghinian into English. What is historical, what is imagined? A poetic reflection on authorship, *A Book, Untitled *represents a new and bold approach to autofiction.

Product details

• Authors: Shushan Avagyan, Avagyan Shushan
• Assisted by: Deanna Cachoian-Schanz (Translation)
• Publisher: Turnaround
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2023
• EAN: 9781911284888
• ISBN: 978-1-911284-88-8
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Alternative History, Fiction in translation, Fiction: general and literary, Alternative history fiction